After all, we may be looking in vain in the regions of politics for what is only the operation of temper and character upon accidental circumstances.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

After Ben Ledi is visible, it then becomes necessary to estimate the amount of haze on it, in order to get the limit of visibility of the air at the time.
— from Meteorology; or, Weather Explained by J. G. (John Gordon) M'Pherson

Little by little I ventured into them, and among my earliest recollections of their sombre and lonesome depths was a long, thunderous, far-away drumming noise, beginning slowly and increasing in speed till the blows became almost continuous.
— from A Rambler's lease by Bradford Torrey

The greater part of the Haida tribe proper inhabit the Queen Charlotte Islands in the northern part of British Columbia, and the few bands living in villages in the southern part of Alaska are said to be malcontents and secessionists, who paddled away and found homes for themselves across Dixon Entrance.
— from Alaska, Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore